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> I’ve hired people that were involved in palace coups at unicorn startups, twice...I know for sure that I would never, ever hire someone who I felt confident m

> I’ve hired people that were involved in palace coups at unicorn startups, twice...I know for sure that I would never, ever hire someone who I felt confident might go down that route. So you hired coupers but you would never hire...coupers? Did you not know about their coups cuz that's the only way I can see that makes sense here. Could you clarify this, seems contradictory... Also, great quote about startup failure :)

coldacid 3y ago
>So you hired coupers but you would never hire...coupers? Did you not know about their coups cuz that's the only way I can see that makes sense here. Could you clarify this, seems contradictory... You might have missed this from GP's comment: >>I’m not sure I can identify exactly who is liable to start a coup In other words, at least once these people have pulled the wool over their eyes during the hiring process.
- Obscurity4340 3y ago
  Thats what I thought ;)
adastra22 3y ago
These people were early hires at a company I co-founded (but was not in an official leadership role at). They had never pulled a coup before, but they would do so within two years of being hired. The coup didn’t affect me directly, and indeed happened when I was out of the country and was presented as a fait accompli. But nevertheless I left not long thereafter as the company had already begun its downward slide. The point in my comment was this: in retrospect, I’m not sure there’s anything that would have tipped me off to that behavior at the time of interview. But if this was something I could somehow identify, it would absolute be my #1 red flag for future hires. Edit: The “twice” part might have made my comment ambiguous. What I meant was after I hired them, these people went on to pull two separate, successive coups, which indicates to me the first time wasn’t an aberration.
- Obscurity4340 3y ago
  'S all good
- Obscurity4340 3y ago
  You should have made them fake manager like Michael Scott appointed Dwigt Schrute

coldacid 3y ago

>So you hired coupers but you would never hire...coupers? Did you not know about their coups cuz that's the only way I can see that makes sense here. Could you clarify this, seems contradictory... You might have missed this from GP's comment: >>I’m not sure I can identify exactly who is liable to start a coup In other words, at least once these people have pulled the wool over their eyes during the hiring process.

Obscurity4340 3y ago
Thats what I thought ;)

adastra22 3y ago

These people were early hires at a company I co-founded (but was not in an official leadership role at). They had never pulled a coup before, but they would do so within two years of being hired. The coup didn’t affect me directly, and indeed happened when I was out of the country and was presented as a fait accompli. But nevertheless I left not long thereafter as the company had already begun its downward slide. The point in my comment was this: in retrospect, I’m not sure there’s anything that would have tipped me off to that behavior at the time of interview. But if this was something I could somehow identify, it would absolute be my #1 red flag for future hires. Edit: The “twice” part might have made my comment ambiguous. What I meant was after I hired them, these people went on to pull two separate, successive coups, which indicates to me the first time wasn’t an aberration.

Obscurity4340 3y ago
'S all good
Obscurity4340 3y ago
You should have made them fake manager like Michael Scott appointed Dwigt Schrute